Some of the hottest debates in twentieth-century Christianity whirled around the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. Fueled by early-century pentecostal revivals at places like Los Angeles’ Azusa Street, fresh pneumatological expressions became, by century’s end, the catalyst for the unprecedented expansion of the Christian faith. In the academy these developments precipitated multiple, varied, and outstanding works of scholarship. Readers [...]
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It is turning out to be a stellar year for books on the Psalms. Even N.T. Wright is readying a book on the Psalms! Multiple houses have published books in recent months, and this blog post gives a brief description of the best of the pack. Finally, all of this is happening just in time [...]
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The Book of Judges, a new addition to Eerdmans’ New International Commentary on the Old Testament, is now available. This is the NICOT’s first volume on Judges, and brings the collection one step closer to completion. Here’s the run down… Barry G. Webb’s The Book of Judges is a critical commentary that explores the book of Judges in comprehensive [...]
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Our inability to define Job’s historical circumstance specifically, the obscurity of the book’s provenance, and even the uncertainty regarding its genre call us–ironically–to pay all the more attention to the book’s message. It is almost as if Job says “don’t be concerned with extraneous details, wrestle with the meaning of the book”. And what an awe-inspiring, troubling [...]
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Today I have deals on two books. Both books deal with differing, though specific, elements of John Calvin’s thought. Both are academic studies and are intended for specialists on Calvin, or related fields. First, Serene Jones takes a fresh look at Calvin’s masterpiece Institutes of the Christian Religion and draws a compelling portrait of [...]
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Posted in Biblical Studies, Old Testament on Sep 30th, 2011
Zondervan grammars are constructed around a systematic and programmatic presentation of the language. This quality is the key to the enduring success of Robert Mounce’s Basics of Biblical Greek and Basics of Biblical Hebrew by Gary Pratico and Miles Van Pelt, both of which are used by hundreds of schools across North America. Mounce’s book takes a [...]
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I often wonder if other people besides me sit at Starbucks reading commentaries for “fun” (read: Matthew is a theology nerd). During my undergraduate studies, I began doing this as a regular practice, and I have no plans to stop doing so even though my own interests now tend toward Theology proper. I believe there [...]
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Before we jump into today’s post previewing God’s Glory in Salvation Through Judgment, I would like to announce that I am currently interviewing author James Hamilton, and will be posting the interview on Christmas Eve. But until then…let’s take a brief look at his new book. Christmas is not a time that we (yes, Christians) [...]
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In the most recent issue of Christianity Today Scot McKnight rightly points out that many Christians are having increasing difficulty reconciling Jesus and Paul. This is, of course, a major question that has been frequently discussed by NT scholars and theologians in recent years. It was even a major aspect–if not the central concern–of N.T. [...]
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Posted in Creation, Genesis, Science, Theology on Sep 21st, 2010
Before moving on to Spitzer’s application of physics to belief in God, I believe we need to ask some critical questions of his inferential method. There is no question that Spitzer is properly articulating the basic findings of physics as they regard the “observable” material universe. My question, however, takes significant issue with how much [...]
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